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Anup Gupta

Anup Gupta is an India-based venture capital investor who has been a Partner at Nexus Venture Partners since 2010, investing in financial services, consumer, and enterprise technology startups including Turtlemint, India Shelter, and PaySense.

Anup Singh of Bikaner

Anup Singh of Bikaner (अनूप सिंह) was a Rajput ruler of Bikaner in Rajasthan who reigned from 1669 to 1698 and served in Aurangzeb's Deccan campaigns.

Anupam Mittal (अनुपम मित्तल)

Anupam Mittal (अनुपम मित्तल), born 1971 in Mumbai, is an Indian internet entrepreneur who founded Shaadi.com, leads People Group, and has judged Shark Tank India since 2021.

Anupgir Himmat Bahadur

Anupgir Himmat Bahadur (अनूपगिर हिम्मत बहादुर), 1730–1804, was a Naga warrior-ascetic condottiere of Bundelkhand who fought at Panipat and Buxar and helped the British take Delhi in 1803.

Anupriya Patel (अनुप्रिया सिंह पटेल)

Anupriya Singh Patel (अनुप्रिया सिंह पटेल), born 1981, is an Indian politician, Apna Dal (Sonelal) president, three-time MP from Mirzapur, and Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, born 1968, is a Sri Lankan politician who has been President of Sri Lanka since 2024, leading the National People's Power.

Anuraag H. Singhal

Anuraag H. Singhal, also known as Anuraag Hari Singhal, is an American judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2019.

Anuradhapura massacre

Anuradhapura massacre: 14 May 1985 LTTE attack on the Sri Maha Bodhi and bus stand in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, killing 146 (some sources 120) Sinhalese pilgrims and civilians, in reprisal for the Valvettiturai army massacre, triggering Tamil reprisal killings and a June 1985 cease-fire.

Anurag Sharma (Himachal Pradesh politician)

Anurag Sharma is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Himachal Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since 2026, after leading the Kangra District Congress Committee.

Anurag Sharma (Uttar Pradesh politician)

Anurag Sharma is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, born in 1964 in Jhansi, who has represented Jhansi in the Lok Sabha since 2019 and was re-elected in 2024.

Anurag Srivastava

Anurag Srivastava is an Indian-born, Singapore-based venture capitalist who co-founded Jungle Ventures, a firm managing over US$1 billion across Southeast Asia and India, with about 60 portfolio companies.

Anurag Thakur (अनुराग सिंह ठाकुर)

Anurag Singh Thakur (अनुराग सिंह ठाकुर), BJP MP from Hamirpur for five Lok Sabha terms, former Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports, and ex-BCCI president removed by the Supreme Court in 2017.

Anuruddha

Anuruddha, also written Anuruddhaka, was a Haryanka king of Magadha who, according to later Buddhist tradition, slew his father Udayin and was in turn slain by his son Munda.

Anurut

Anurut, also Chao Anurutha or Anouruttha, was King of Luang Phrabang (born 1737, died 1819) who built the sim of Vat Mai Suvannaphumaram in 1796 and abdicated in 1817.

Anusapati

Anusapati was a king of Singasari, a kingdom in eastern Java, who took the throne by having his predecessor Ken Arok killed, reigning in the 13th century.

Anushilan Samiti (অনুশীলন সমিতি)

Anushilan Samiti (অনুশীলন সমিতি), founded 24 March 1902 in Calcutta, was a Bengali revolutionary secret society; its Dhaka branch and the Jugantar offshoot led armed anti-British struggle before it dissolved into the Revolutionary Socialist Party in 1940.

Anushteginid dynasty

The Anushteginid dynasty (خوارزمشاهیان) was a Turkic-lineage ruling house of Khwarazm whose Khwarazmshahs, founded around 1077, ruled Iran and Central Asia until the Mongols destroyed the state in 1231.

Anutin Charnvirakul (อนุทิน ชาญวีรกูล)

Anutin Charnvirakul (อนุทิน ชาญวีรกูล), Bhumjaithai Party leader, is Thailand's 32nd prime minister, appointed September 2025 and re-elected March 2026; known for 2022 cannabis decriminalization as health minister.

Anuvia Plant Nutrients

Anuvia Plant Nutrients was a Winter Garden, Florida agricultural technology company that converted organic waste into controlled-release bio-based fertilizers, including the SymTRX line, before ceasing operations in May 2023.

Anveya Living

Anveya Living is an Indian beauty and personal care company in Bengaluru, founded in 2018 by Vivek Singh and Saurav Patnaik, selling online under four brands.

Anwar al-Awlaki

Anwar al-Awlaki, born 1971 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was an American-born Yemeni cleric who became AQAP's leading English-language propagandist, wrote "Constants on the Path of Jihad" and helped create Inspire magazine, and was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen on September 30, 2011.

Anwar Congo

Anwar Congo, Indonesian death-squad leader from Medan, North Sumatra, credited with at least 1,000 killings in the 1965-66 anticommunist massacres as a Pemuda Pancasila member; central figure of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary The Act of Killing (2012).

Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947, Cherok Tok Kun, Penang), Malaysia's tenth Prime Minister since 24 November 2022, former ABIM founder, finance minister and deputy PM under Mahathir, twice imprisoned, opposition leader, now leads a unity government.

Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trials

The Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trials were two politically charged prosecutions of Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim under Penal Code s.377B: a 1998 case (convicted 2000, overturned 2004) and a 2008 case (acquitted 2012, convicted 2014–15, pardoned 2018); he became prime minister in 2022.

Anwar Sadat

Anwar Sadat (Anwar al-Sadat, 1918-1981), Egyptian president 1970-1981 who succeeded Nasser, expelled Soviet advisers, led the 1973 Yom Kippur War, visited Jerusalem in 1977, signed the Camp David Accords and the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, and was assassinated at a military parade in October 1981.

Anwaruddin Khan

Anwaruddin Khan (انوار الدین خان) was Nawab of the Carnatic from 1744 until 1749, appointed by the Nizam Asaf Jah and founder of the Wallajah dynasty of the Arcot Nawabs.

Anxi Protectorate

The Anxi Protectorate (安西都护府) was the Tang dynasty's senior military and administrative agency for the Western Regions, seated at Qiuci and directing the Four Garrisons of Anxi.

Anya

Anya (Аня) is a feminine given name that began as the Russian diminutive of Anna, from the Hebrew Hannah meaning "grace", and is now used independently in English.

Anyanya

Anyanya, also rendered Anya-Nya, was the southern Sudanese insurgent movement that fought the government in the first Sudanese civil war, ending with the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement.

Anyfin

Anyfin is a Stockholm-based fintech company founded in 2017 that refinances consumers' installment loans, credit card balances, and personal loans at lower rates using AI-based underwriting.